TvT has an editor built in, for the everyday fixes: trimming a section out, evening out the sound or the picture of a scene, dropping in another clip or a piece of audio, and exporting just a part of a video. Edits are queued, applied in one encode, and can be undone by restoring the original. This guide goes through all of it.
1. Three ways into the editor
On the watch page, All actions next to the title has Edit video. The same menu opens with a right-click on any entry in Up next. And on Manage Videos, the actions menu on any video has it too.
2. Selections and adjustments
The editor puts the video on the left, the timeline under it, and three tabs on the right: Edits, Tracks, and Chapters. Everything starts with a selection: drag across the timeline to pick a range, then:
- Cut removes the range from the video.
- Volume adjusts the sound of the range, for a scene that came out too quiet or too loud.
- Brightness and Contrast adjust the picture of the range the same way.
Volume, brightness, and contrast ask for an amount, then Queue edit. Cut queues straight away. Every queued edit is listed under Edits and drawn as a band on the timeline; nothing has touched the video yet.
Drag a band to move it, or drag its edge to resize it, and the list follows. The cross on a list entry removes it.
3. Insert video, insert audio, download a clip
Insert video drops another MP4 into this one at any point, and everything after it shifts along. Insert audio lays a sound clip over the video without changing its length; drag its edges to stretch it and it repeats. With a range selected, Download clip exports just that part as its own MP4.
4. Apply, and restore
Apply runs every queued edit in one encode. It takes a moment, the video then plays with the edits, and the list is empty again. The original file is never changed: All actions on an edited video offers Restore original video, which rebuilds the stream from the untouched import.
5. Tracks and chapters
Tracks lists the audio tracks and caption tracks in the video. Rename them, pick the default audio track, and add captions four ways: pulled from the original file, generated on this computer with Whisper, uploaded as a VTT or SRT file, or written by hand. Every cue can be edited afterwards. The Caption Management guide covers this in full.
Chapters can be pulled from the original file when it has them, or added at the playhead and named. They show as markers on the timeline and in the player, and the player's gear adds one at the current time too.
Good to know
- Queued edits are kept in the browser until they are applied, so you can leave and come back.
- Applying is a background job; System Activity shows it, and the editor tells you when it is done.
- Retranscode on an edited video (Manage Videos) rebuilds the stream from the untouched import as well, dropping the edits.